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Russian Government Hacked White House Computer System, CNN Reports
Update: even the White House appears embarrassed by this "report." According to Bloomberg, the CNN report that Russia breached the White House computer system is "speculating on the attribution of the activity of concern on the unclassified" White House network that was “disclosed last year,” NSC spokesperson Mark Stroh says."This report is not referring to a new incident." Stroh says in e-mail statement.
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A few months ago, Sony used a ridiculous "hacking" publicity stunt to generate some $40 million more in revenues for what would otherwise have been the latest Seth Rogen "comic" flop, in which the film agency blamed North Korea - which has about ten ultramodern 80386 computers in the entire country - for hacking its firewall, a hack which was subsequently revealed to be the result of disgruntled former employee. Fast forward to today, when moments ago CNN reported that Russian hackers which according to left "tell-tale codes and other markers that they believe point to hackers working for the Russian government", had penetrated the White House computer system.
Of course, reading beyond just the first paragraph reveals that this was anything but an actual hack: as CNN reports, "the White House has said the breach only ever affected an unclassified system." So anyone could have accessed it really. But for the sake of the second cold war let's make it seem that Vladimir Putin has nothing better to do than to sift through Obama's golfing schedule and discover what his true handicap is. Although it's clearly time to declare war on Syria's Assad in retaliation.
The humor continues:
The hackers had access to sensitive information such as real-time non-public details of the president's schedule. While such information is not classified, it is still highly sensitive and prized by foreign intelligence agencies, U.S. officials say.
It is also, well, public. It was unclear if Putin is now also in possession of Obama's real birth certificate.
It gets better.
To get to the White House, the hackers first broke into the State Department, investigators believe.
The State Department computer system has been bedeviled by signs that despite efforts to lock them out, the Russian hackers have been able to reenter the system. One official says the Russian hackers have "owned" the State Department system for months and it is not clear the hackers have been fully eradicated from the system
It is settled then: clintonemail.com (and hdr22@clintonemail.com) was more secure than the State Department. And to think people made fun of Hillary for taking the "less safe" route..
As in many hacks, investigators believe the White House intrusion began with a phishing email that was launched using a State Department email account that the hackers had taken over, according to the U.S. officials.
As in "click here if you want to add 7 inches to your penis..." or to download a free torrent of The Interview.
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, in a speech at an FBI cyberconference in January, warned government officials and private businesses to teach employees what "spear phishing" looks like.
"So many times, the Chinese and others get access to our systems just by pretending to be someone else and then asking for access, and someone gives it to them," Clapper said.
So all it takes to penetrate what should be the safest, and most protected computer system in the world is a phishing email. Check.
It gets even better:
The ferocity of the Russian intrusions in recent months caught U.S. officials by surprise, leading to a reassessment of the cybersecurity threat as the U.S. and Russia increasingly confront each other over issues ranging from the Russian aggression in Ukraine to the U.S. military operations in Syria.
The attacks on the State and White House systems is one reason why Clapper told a Senate hearing in February that the "Russian cyberthreat is more severe than we have previously assessed."
Yes, because only ferocious Russian hackers working directly for Vladimir Putin (according to "tell-tale" codes which experienced Russian hackers leave all the time) were capable enough of sending phushing emails to state department employees.
But the best part is that, supposedly, the evil, ferocious Russian hackers were first identified in October. Apparently it took 6 months, and a Clinton email server scandal to redirect public attention from her personal email server to that of the United States itself.
The White House in October said it noticed suspicious activity in the unclassified network that serves the executive office of the president. The system has been shut down periodically to allow for security upgrades.
The FBI, Secret Service and U.S. intelligence agencies are all involved in investigating the breach, which they consider among the most sophisticated attacks ever launched against U.S. government systems. ?The intrusion was routed through computers around the world, as hackers often do to hide their tracks, but investigators found tell-tale codes and other markers that they believe point to hackers working for the Russian government. A spokesman for the National Security Council declined to comment.
And the punchline: "the Russian embassy did not respond to a request for comment."
Why, were they too busy laughing at this idiocy?
Then again, in retrospect this is par for the course for a country which is now officially preparing to blame the next market rash on, drumroll, "Russian spies."
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I have a very hard time telling the difference between CNN and /b/ lately.
u mean (PNN) Pentagon Network News???..............
I think the Russian troll army spends an inordinate amount of time on ZH. And have posting rights.
I look at it as an antidote to the ZioCon MSM propaganda
Hopefully the Ruskies can find out where Obozo was REALLY born and who his REAL father was.
he is a nigger, that's all.
50%
A reverse lookup showed that the source was a .mil domain.
World War 3 here we come. God willing I shall see you all on the other side.
No real proof will be offered since the USSA always lies us into wars. Having said this, this 'incident' is likely more CNN /White House BS to push CISPA and/or Internet Censorship.
Before or after the coup attempt in Moscow?
http://www.safehaven.com/article/37130/alleged-russian-coup-attempt-leading-to-breach-of-us-european-alliance-global-currency-market-turbulence
And these are the same folks who want to be in charge of your cyber security.
Mind boggling
OMG, the Russians are coming! First it was Al Qaeda. Then ISIS. Now Russians. Please Mr. (grossly incompetent) Government, take my rights and protect me. Muchos muchos,
Amen.
Yeah, I also smell the stink of another USSA false flag designed to take away more of our rights. Fuck these fascists and their relentless war on our rights!
Don't forget the NORKS and remember the Maine!
I stopped reading after "CNN reports"
Very nice...... +1000
If the White House got hacked, chances are the moniker of the perps started with that same letter R, but it is much moar likely it was the Republicans using a Trojan (horse).
40 downvotes? Oh noes! That's ok, I'll even help you guys out with a database to source from when you do your putin sponsored trolling:
http://xn--80acbo6d9a.xn--p1ai/index.php
keep trying....it is a badge of honor to get 100 downvotes in this crowd.....
Perhaps you should find a nice government run neocon site and go there.
You would be happy if you were with clueless meat-puppets.
i'd suggest freerepublic.com
They're still pining for the reagan days...and "bombing begins in 5 minutes"...for every last thing
Well F me..
SOMBODY needs to bring this criminal administration to account
since the negligent Congress of the United States and the Supreme Court of the United States won’t.
Must be funding season for the NSA and cyber "patriots". Hamburglar up there has kids to feed.
In Soviet USSA, the White House penetrates you.
Look fuckers. Saddam scared you all a treat, so did Al Qaeda, until it didn't, You barely flinched at ISIS and you didn't notice when we changed it to DAESH. So we're wheeling out the Russians, that worked pretty well back in the day. Now you fuckers better start acting scared, hand us the fucking keys to the kingdom, or we'll wheel out a CONUS terror incident that'll make your fucking hair curl. Time to remind you who's in charge, got it?
Ahhhhh.
Could this be the reason it was recently decided that cyber attacks can trigger a NATO Article 5 collective response?
http://www.defensenews.com/story/defense/policy-budget/warfare/2015/03/25/nato-cyber-russia-exercises/70427930/
That would be a fatal mistake. Article 5 makes a prime target of anybody pertaining to NATO. Yes, it's that stupid... Let's go to "nucular" war because of Lithuania !
Yeah, but if we're supposed to be busy fighting the Russians, who are we gonna team up with to stop the asteroid from hitting the Earth?
Full Fucking Retard Society
Newsmax
they actually ran a poll asking if Putin is the antichrist...
Whatever unrelated rubbish youre posting in threads is called trolling . You can come up with tireless naratives . Truth isnt by your side now . US is a threat to world peace .
BKbroiler you're too stupid even by russophob standards, go check for Putin maybe he is under your bed, dont forget the locker too
Automatic Choke, that's right boy, tap yourself on the back
IN
soviet
Russia
STATE
trolls
YOU!
Funny how almost all of your accounts were started a year ago or less. trolls.
The simple fact is that the US government is the worst and most evil government on earth. Bar none.
That doesn't have anything to do with accounts.
Not only are you not witty but you're also not funny, 2/10 for effort. Did you find Putin btw? (little secret between you and me but when it comes to that Putin troll army you should especially be careful with cavalry... Cossaks can be nasty too)
All you need to know:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/02/putin-kremlin-inside-russia...
The open java holes in ZH's sidebars/adspace allows for easy tracking in case the standard troll narratives of ZOG/Pro-RUS+CZ and bad english wasn't a cluein. One of the cybershops had a fun statistic that 40% of internet comment traffic is now paid bot or psyops. So take this for what you will and keep posting on ZH. We're all better for it Butch, its what your good at.
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Never thought about who is paying for it all? No, of course you didn't.
http://russia-insider.com/en/western-hypocrisy-shaping-public-opinion-th...
No thats not all you need know, the fact that you post a story invented by US government funded Radio Free Europe and repeated over and over ever since Snowden revelaed US trolls is what you need to know http://pando.com/2015/04/02/the-kremlins-social-media-trolls-are-real-as... and we all know that Pentagon funded media is a trustworthy one. As for psyop bots Zerohedge has the real sotry from wikileaks http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-07-18/how-british-spies-seed-internet...
"One of the cybershops had a fun statistic that 40% of internet comment traffic is now paid bot or psyops" so what, are you dumb? Nevermind, rhetorical question. Advertising bots have been a huge part of internet since the 90s. "my moms uncle earns 5000$ from home, click here if you..." Did you know that 8.5% of wikipedia articles was written by ONE bot http://www.popsci.com/article/science/bot-has-written-more-wikipedia-art...
UK and US both have their troll depratments, once it got completely revealed as afact in Snowden docs they inverted the story about Russians. http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/yes-there-are-paid-government-...
Good ol tactics, accuse your enemy of what you are doing. Hey remember how US accused China of literally doing everything that was revealed in Snowden docs that US is doing.
Even funnier, before publishing US gov. propaganda Guardian published about US gov trolls back in 2011 http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/mar/17/us-spy-operation-socia...
"The open java holes in ZH's sidebars/adspace allows for easy tracking in case the standard troll narratives" you obviously know nothing about what you are talking about, as for tracking, if the story that Guardian republished from RFE (for nth time) was actually true they could easilly prove it by revealing how many IPs come from Russia, but of course they will not bcz its bullshit, they once used to have a little flag next to a name where it would show where you are from but they removed it, and no you cant hide it, if you use proxies they will know, and if you use Tor they know, so if majority of pro-Rus comments are from tor and proxies there is your proof, even better, but we all know its bullshit, it's the opposite :)
"and bad english wasn't a cluein", your English is pretty crappy. Wait is everyone in the world a native English speaker or just less than 6% of world population? A shocker, I know. (nevermind the kind of English that US youth uses on twitter)
"So take this for what you will and keep posting on ZH" I take it that you are quite obviously a moron
Nah, Boehner is not that suave. This smells like the work of Carlos Danger!
A monotroll he is .
Ah, I see you also read this article about the West's troll temper tantrum:
http://russia-insider.com/en/west-throws-temper-tantrum/5356
"I stopped reading after "CNN reports"
Wolf Blitzer former AIPAC lobbyist and editor of the Jerusalem post at "ZNN reports"
"The hackers had access to sensitive information such as real-time non-public details of the president's schedule."
Well if Obama is assassinated at any of these events at least we'll know exactly who did it...
There'll be pristine Russkie passports laying all over the place so we'll exactly who did it!
It certainly won't be the friends of President Joe Biden...
LBJ's ghost.
No real proof will be offered that you are not a Paid Puutie Puppy propagandist.
Having said this, I would expect that even Puutie would find a better idiot troll for the work.
There will be no potato for you, no matter how hard you try. Now, buzz off!
angel,
I thought you died when my dog licked his nuts.
Lame ! As said before, you're just too dumb to qualify for potatoes. Even trolls need to meet some minimal standards... and you don't !
Standards for trolls?
Post a link to the certification Puutie provided you after training?
But maybe you failed Troll worker training and put your best efforts into nut nuzzeling?
Which pays you better?
Well aren't you just the most insufferable of cunts? Good lord, please I'm begging you, kill yourself. Its the least you can do.
I just watched this short video by Mike Maloney talking about the passing of the Net Neutrality Act. He said there will be a 911 like event on the internet that will give the government the excuse to completely take over. This Russian incident could be a trial balloon for just such an event...
The End Of The Internet As We Know It - Mike Maloney
http://goldsilver.com/video/the-end-of-the-internet-as-we-know-it-mike-maloney-(2)/
Well Drudge did have that gay flashing red and blue light on this story a bit ago, so it must be true.
Matt would never lie to the goyim
Here comes Ferguson 2.0
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/08/us/south-carolina-officer-is-charged-w...
It's South Carolina - Nothing will happen, no protest, no press, no plea - well, maybe a plea on this one.
Land of Lindsey Graham and the Redneck Confederacy.
Besides, he was black and in the wrong place at the wrong time and he tried to flee - guilty ! Shoot the mofo. Show no mercy, shoot to kill and if it takes eight shots, sobeit, ammo is still free at the station.
I'm headed to the fiery place. Bullshitters and ass kissers can have the pearly gates.
Anyone who can smuggle in some cold Arrogant Bastards will be welcome at my table.
Its a story from CNN, not buying it. It was probably the same hackers from Sony
No, it was Kenya not Niger.
Is nigger to Niger as Kanye is to Kenya?
Be he flashin' the sign? You know the one.
Why the hate.... you diminish the credibility of the zeroedge community... chill
I agree, Badself.
I have no use for Obama. But I have less use for f'ing rednecks like you. Loser.
What has a redneck ever done to you? Oh right, there was that canoe trip down the Cahulawassee....
"Sony used a ridiculous "hacking" publicity stunt..."
Really? The head of the studio sacrificed her job for the sake of a marketing campaign?
she sounds like a heavy user of cheap nasal narcotics
Yea, she will probably starve now.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Pascal
Is Colon Bowel going to get in front of the UN with a line drawing of a guy with a vodka bottle hacking USA computers lol. Irrefutable proof.
Has anyone asked CNN if Russia is right next to Hong Kong in South America?
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-08-08/whats-wrong-picture
Just put PeeSaki on the screen for fifteen seconds and the memory is wiped.
Just for you...
http://www.asliceofleadership.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Brainwashin...
Vlad has a long-standing policy of offering free judo flips to flaccid, compliant Zero Hedgers.
TV and Hollywood's shit is for idiots. I am sure you are an avid viewer.
@BKbroiler--I think some government employees spend an inordinate amount of time on ZH. And have posting rights.
If they are smart enough pwn State and Whitehouse they are smart enough to not bother with a relatively small media outlet where people are generally sympathetic. One would think they would spend their resources on bigger bang for the buck sites. But that would be logical and we know the Ruskies are so illogical that they can barely hang on to the planet as it spins because they don't understand gravity.
Smile Reggie!
some folks got hacked
Some McDonald's restaurants got closed.
Maybe they have video of Obama and Reggie Love In flagrante delicto?
Because there's none, same with White House, press briefings look as if they are run by true /b/tards.
HEY! We have standards, OK?
Did the White House really get hacked? How you answer is a matter of Symantec's
I'm not sure, but everybody seems to know about the Russian hacker "tell-tale codes" except them.
Hussein will announce he read it in the newspapers because he's busy right now re-assessing his final four picks. Or, ESPN could run a special bulletin informing the White Mosque.
Depends what you mean by, "hacked."
Maybe they should use something good like Kapersky. Oh - it's Russian.
Send our super spies Austin Millbarge and Emmett Fitzhume to fix this situation.
Why would the Russians hack the White House computers when they could get that jug-eared Kenyan Marxist jackass to hand them everything they wanted in return for a campaign donation?
I'm making over $7k a month working part time. I kept hearing other people tell me how much money they can make online so I decided to look into it. Well, it was all true and has totally changed my life. This is what I do... www.globe-report.com
Perhaps the Obamatron should ask Moose and Squirrel who the spies are! :>D
"We did not place 'SUBversive' Russian naval welders into the State Dept."
But we do admit to using CNN as a subversive operation, designed to embarrass US journalism.
And the sheep took this in and went back to grazing.
right .... there is no intelligence to be found at the White House.
"And the sheep took this in and went back to grazing."
We did not!
...Hey! Kardashians!
Hehehhe...you said 'penetrated'.
This fits. After all, we know Putin personally flew the jets into the WTC buildings and the Pentagon. This guy is one totally evil dude. He has even moved Russia's border right up to poor defenseless US bases in eastern Europe.
No need to hack the hacks, they're all too predictable anyhow.
White House is all F'd up. Tell us something we don't already know.
CNN has no credibility. This time, it was probably that same disgruntled employee from Sony. The Russians are way too good to leave the in your face clues CNN claims. Unless, of course, they are purposely showing off. Those guys are good.
<-- NSA or CIA
<-- Russia
What did they get ? The wookies school menu . Launch code for golf digest
LOL! Hopefully they only got Reggie Love's dancecard schedule and Biden's playdate schedule.
Naked Samsquanch photos of the first Squatch!!!!!
yep..,,the rooskies were just doin some squatchin!
+1000 for the Bubbles Samsquanch reference
Watching the new season now!
I think they don`t find something intersting in the white house computer.
They have to hack the Illuminaty-Rothschild-Computersystem!
Yes. Yes of course they did this. I saw it on CNN.
The very least those Russian hackers could have done would have been to deface the State Department web page with this...
https://www.flickr.com/photos/expd/16562571480/
USA - third world banana republic
A banana republic with no home grown bananas ! Because we're so "exceptional"...
Oh god is there anyone stupid enough to believe this fuckwittery?
*checks a few places*
Oh god Americans are stupid enough to believe this fuckwittery.
Every country has its useful idiots.
+ 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 for "fuckwittery"
Puutie hired a large number to post on ZH.
nah, you're just fucked in the head still.
How much is pootie paying you to say that?
Is that you Richard Perle or just one of your PNAC neocon cunts?
CANADA has Steven Harper, you are right, exi1edOne, he is certainly a useful idiot for NATO, and the White House/USA/CIA/NSA/et cetera, but he ain't no use to CANADA IMO.
>> And the punchline: "the Russian embassy did not respond to a request for comment."
The Russian Embassy was unable think up a truthful comment that would not be thought to be poking fun at the feckless Americans.
Hotel and Airports must masterbating over which TV channel to run daily. MSNBC or CNN tricket circus wars on low viewing participation. Just wait until advertising companies blast adverts in a mall. Most will become desensitized and not notice the annoying babel to lure you into store.
I tried clicking 'here' but I didn't get my 7 inches.
Are there any other lies in this post that I missed?
did they get to clinton's email server ?
All they found was ashes & soot... she nuked it.
Came through the STATE DEPARTMENT.
Hmmm, now who could possibly be running an insecure e-mail address in the STATE DEPARTMENT?
Ready For Hillery™! You oppose her coronation it is because War On Women™!
I'm totally in favor of equal rights for bovines but my vote is already promised to Elsie.
Is Hilary running as first woman prez or first fat ugly ignorant old white heifer prez
Actually received a call from the Repugs today for a $250 donation
to STOP Hillary. No mention of another candidate, just wanted my money as soon as possible.
And yes, they accepted all forms of renumeration, including plastic.
We are own you President golfing schedule!
-kgb
Ok, if CNN says they hacked the WH then it must be true... NOT
Puutie would certainly not detail highly paid hackers to invade the White House computer network.
Nutty Nuukie Puutie is a man of weapons of destruction.
Maybe the schedule info could be helpful for a drone strike at the golf course?
The punishment for Hasbara is the removal of fingers.
Nuukie Puutie's punishment for a propaganda failure like you is the special cup of tea.
Post more to save your life.
Look, everybody knows there's paid trolls all over. The Russian government does it; the US government does it; the corporate world does it. It's just that some - like you - are so low-brow, so marginally literate, so utterly illogical and dull that they stick out like sore thumbs. Of course, if you were half-bright, you'd have a better job than shilling for the Pentagon on the Internet. Then again you probably get fucking union bennies too you fucking parasite.
You must be getting desperate to get a gold star and extra turnip with the Puutie Puppy paycheck.
I'm not in any union. However if I was I would have you fired from the job of sign carrier on the picket line.
Any money left on your EBT card? Now that Twinkies are back I epect you cash it out pretty quickly.
Ahahahahah! You're a dumbass. First you accuse him of being a Russian troll, then you accuse him of being on EBT, which is a US program. Five sentences and you cannot even keep the narrative straight.
Indeed. Someone recently said here, "We deserve better trolls at Zero Hedge".
Yes, we do Tyler. Augustus Gloop is a pile of shit of a troll...
He has made me chuckle a few times though. Out loud even. He's such a pretentious little neocon twat that I don't even scoff. I laugh.
Augustus has trouble typing with obama's dick in his mouth
Are you sure that Augustus isn't Obama with Michelle's dick in his mouth? It kind of fits. Even though Caesar cast the mold, Augustus is considered the first emperor of Rome. I can see the golfer-in-chief having such illusions of grandeur.
Sure russia sends trolls but US sends x50 more .
http://russia-insider.com/en/western-hypocrisy-shaping-public-opinion-th...
"The Phony Litvinenko Murder" William Dunkerly
Augustus !
Dont measure the rest of the world by your own Yeekee standarts....Drooonies are Bobomo's toees, nor Pooty's.
Silly boy !
More annoying than your trolling is the fact that you sound like a petulant little child that just soiled his diaper. I've seen skilled trolls, and you most certainly are not one of them.
"MOM! PUUTIE IS LOOKING AT ME! MOOOOOM! MAKE HIM STOP! WAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
I expect that you have seen skilled trolls.
Puutie had them run the training sessions for you propagandists.
Nutty Nuukie Puutie should be able to hire better. What does your Russian version of an EBT card look like?
Awww, how cute!
I suspect that you are unaware of history to the point that "Remember the Maine," that has been posted in here is meaningless to you. From a government that has lied us into war multiple times, we are getting a lot of accusations without a lot of evidence. That is called propaganda, and if you knew why "Remember the Maine" was important, you'd know that the actions of the US government are consistent of buttering up the population for war with Russia. You are probably also very ignorant of just what nuclear weapons actually do and why war with Russia is a very, very bad idea.
But that's probably too sophisticated for your simplistic jingoistic neocon mind to comprehend, so I'll put it to you in terms that you might understand:
You are the WORST TROLL EVER. I can pretty much guarantee that when you start speaking, anybody with an IQ over about 60 wishes that you'd just shove Obama's junk in your cockholster just so that you'd shut the fuck up.. You are quite the little chode mongrel. Now, bugger off, scrotum weasel. There are some chin nuts waiting for you somewhere.
Pootie just turned off the lights in Washington DC and made the Earth's Seat of Power, the White House, turn on its emergency generators for a couple of hours till the gremlin of the Kremlin said " do svidania."
All our retardnik, Augustus, can think of is one of America's first 'false flags', starting a war with Spain to steal her coaling stations and naval bases..
+ 100
Now joining the 'chalice from the palace', 'the flagon with dragon', and the ever popular 'vessel with the pestle'...
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